I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three ... s formal operations over a century and a half. The horrors in ...

This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems ...

The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold rush in the 19th century ... Survey. Mining accounted for 21 percent of South Africa ...